BIB_ID
433251
Accession number
MA 409.7
Creator
Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, engraver.
Display Date
Amsterdam : I. Houbraken, 1743.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 print : etching & engraving ; image: 360 x 227 mm; plate mark: 372 x 238 mm; sheet: 382 x 260 mm
Notes
Engraving after a painting by Isaac Oliver.
"In the Collection of Sr. Brownlow Sherrard Bart."--Below image.
Individual plate from the published series of portrait prints: The Heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain / engraven by Mr Houbraken and by Mr Vertue ; with their lives and characters by T. Birch (London : J. & P. Knapton, 1743-1752)
"In the Collection of Sr. Brownlow Sherrard Bart."--Below image.
Individual plate from the published series of portrait prints: The Heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain / engraven by Mr Houbraken and by Mr Vertue ; with their lives and characters by T. Birch (London : J. & P. Knapton, 1743-1752)
Provenance
Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1905.
Summary
Portrait of Philip Sidney, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a ruff and armor; in an architectural oval on a pedestal.
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